Do y'all know the website Genius.com? It's one of the more definitive sites for looking up lyrics to popular (and sometimes unpopular) songs. It's all done with user contributions, though I assume LLMs will make the users obsolete soon. Anyway, I've often read the user-contributed lyrics through gritted teeth, and shook my head in shame and disbelief that young people are so ignorant, but I've never really felt the urge to contribute.
Until today. I heard an old favorite song, you might know it; it's called "Lives Of The Saints No, 135 (Naked Wife)". It's by a terrific group out of Richmond, VA, called Honor Role. The song I transcribed came out in 1987 or 1988. I don't know if the band made it to the 1990s. But this song has aged very, very well.
I remember thinking this song was great in the eighties, and every few years I'm reminded of it again, and I like it even more.
I was pleased to notice that within an hour of my transcribing this song, someone else came along and transcribed six more songs by this somewhat obscure band.
Oh, the lyrics? I still think they're great, but I'm pretty sure the singer was improvising them on the spot. They don't follow a storyline, that's for sure. It's tough to apply their lessons; they're not aphoristic, they're hard to quote. But I hope you'll read them anyway. When you have time. Link below.
My transcription of "Lives of the Saints No. 135 (Naked Wife)" by Honor Role on Genius (genius.com)
[Honor Role Bandcamp page for "Lives of the Saints #135 (Naked Wife)""]https://honorrole.bandcamp.com/track/lives-of-the-saints-135-naked-wife
